[geeks] M$ advertising

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Wed Jun 26 18:32:58 CDT 2002


On June 26, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> >   I'm reminded of the time the marketing department at Digex (note
> > correct capitalization) wanted to make a brochure bragging about our
> > first NOC.  They hired models that looked like they were carved out of
> > blocks of cream cheese.  That brochure made us the laughing stock of
> > the tech industry, and the suits just couldn't understand why.
> 
> I don't really get it either.  Wouldn't they be cream cheese colored
> if they spent all their time running a NOC?
> 
> Did they fail to look like they had a clue?  What?

  Nonono...they were a bunch of buff, pretty-boy, suit-wearing morons
with management hair.  Yuppies, basically.  People who do what they're
told.

  The kind of people who buy Cadillac Escalades, if that puts a fine
enough point on it.

       -Dave

-- 
Dave McGuire                  "Needing a calculator indicates that
St. Petersburg, FL              your .emacs file is incomplete." -Joshua Boyd



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